Auld Lang Syne on a Dudelsack

I like to look at my annual lists as goals, as opposed to resolutions. It helps when I don't achieve them. For breaking resolutions ha...

The month of December is one of reflection and as part of the final days, and as an extension of my thoughts back in October , I have consid...

FootnoteMaven has challenged geneaBloggers to post their favorite carols. I tend to prefer the seasonal ones over the religious ones, since...

The 38th Carnival of Genealogy has been posted. Several people were better able to remember what happened on December 31, 1999 or December ...

On a recent trip with some friends to Springfield, Missouri, we were walking out of the Lincoln home, and the tour-guide was mentioning the ...

Miriam at Ancestories , and Tim at Genealogy Reviews Online , have begun a meme asking the question - where were you for the census of your ...

I've been geneablogging for six months now, and it's approaching January, a natural time for reflection, so I've been asking mys...

The Genealogy Carnival for the 6th of Tevet is to remember what we were doing at the turn of the Millennium. I’m confused. The millennium c...

Anybody can edit Wikipedia. That includes you. So when you see a mistake, you can correct it. All you need to do is hit the 'edit' ...

Wikipedia is attacked often as a resource for inaccuracies. There have been studies done, however, that show it compares well to other enc...

Jasia at CreativeGene had a post recently on Christmas cards which reminded me of a recent discovery. I was scanning a collection of letter...

The University of Florida has some potentially useful digital archives . Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Florida The maps were mainly designe...

November is over, and I'm done attempting to write 50,000 words in one month. Alas, I didn't complete the task. But I wrote enoug...

Finding a rhyme for 'freak' was difficult, however, thanks to Creative Gene , I found We are Multicolored which allows you to creat...

There's a video on YouTube - maybe it is produced by a relative, or has someone talking about a relative. You'd like to save the vi...

kvell - (Yiddish - kveln - to be delighted, from Middle High German quellen to well, gush, swell) I've just learned my great-great-gra...

Thanks to Randy , I heard about the Family Survival Kit advertised on RootsTelevision I have been impressed this holiday weekend how well my...

I recently discovered a website called Totally Optional Prompts which prompts you for poetry on a weekly basis, every Saturday, and then th...

Anthony Peratt, a specialist in plasma phenomena, writes, “a shock pulse initiates a series of hydrodynamic instabilities that differ from ...